Psychologists Probe a Tyrant's Mind

By

Mark Ingebretsen

Updated Dec. 18, 2003 9:35 p.m. ET

In the treatment of some psychological disorders, talk therapy may have given way to antidepressants and other mind-healing medicines; nevertheless, it remains the principal tactic for ferreting out the inner thoughts of terrorists and tyrants.

"The CIA, which had put together a team of operations officers, polygraph experts and psychiatrists to interrogate Al-Qaeda prisoners, is expected to use similar techniques to interrogate...